How to get that drone registration refund if you signed up with the FAA

Did you pay the $5 fee to register your drone with the Federal Aviation Administration? Hobby drone pilots can now claim that drone registration refund.

Hobby drone pilots, meaning those “operating exclusively in compliance with section 336” can delete their registration and receive a refund of their registration fee, by filling out this registration deletion and self-certification form and mailing it to the FAA at the address designated on the form.

“The FAA continues to encourage voluntary registration for all owners of small unmanned aircraft,” according to an FAA news release.

The FAA did allow a brief period where users could register and the fee would be waived. Of course, people who registered during that period cannot claim an additional $5 refund.

When the court struck down the FAA’s registration rule, it referenced the 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which was passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama. That rule stated that the FAA “may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft.”